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Best 8 Dishes to Eat During Ramadan This Year 2024

Mar 27, 2024

Image Credit - Google Images By: Masha Lukovenko / Arab America Contributing Writer Intro Enjoy this year's Ramadan with this great selection of delicious and delightful traditional Middle Eastern and Arab iftar recipes and dishes. Traditional appetizers and starters include(...)

Gaza: The Day After the War

Mar 26, 2024

Protest for Palestine By: Bishara A. Bahbah / Arab America Contributing Writer No one knows what will happen once the vicious genocidal war comes to an end in Gaza. However, several things must happen before discussing the type of peace(...)

Tajine - Morocco’s Tasty Contribution to the Culinary World

Mar 26, 2024

By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer My first introduction to tajine, a dish that vies with couscous as Morocco’s national dish, took place in Rabat at the home of my friend Idriss. I had met him during his student days(...)

Pathbreakers of Arab America—Noura Erakat

Mar 20, 2024

Noura Erakat, distinguished legal expert. By John Mason / Arab America Contributing Writer This is the thirty-eighth of Arab America’s series on American pathbreakers of Arab descent. The series includes personalities from entertainment, business, sports, science, academia, journalism, and politics,(...)

Etel Adnan: Arab American Art Medium Virtuosa

Mar 20, 2024

Etel Adnan By: María Teresa Fidalgo-Azize | Arab America Contributing Writer Creation is a form of thinking. It’s abandoning a certain world of preoccupations in order to enter into another. Etel Adnan, Beginning with Color: An Interview with Etel Adnan(...)

Palestinian Actress and Comedian Maysoon Zayid to Perform at the National Arab American Heritage Month Commemoration, April 18, 2024

Mar 20, 2024

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (WASHINGTON, DC) March 20, 2023--The Arab America Foundation proudly announces that Palestinian actress and comedian Maysoon Zayid, the first Arab American woman comedian in the U.S., will perform on Thursday, April 18th, at the National Arab American(...)

6 Best Arab Graphic Novels You Must Read Before You Get Old

Mar 20, 2024

By: Menal Elmaliki / Arab America Contributing Writer 1. The Apartment in Bab El-Louk "How similar yet different we all are." A blue door graces the front cover of the graphic novel, The Apartment in Bab el-Louk, written by Donia(...)

Trending Modest Fashion 2024

Mar 20, 2024

By: Malak Hassouna /Arab America Contributing Writer Modest fashion is trending in which people wear less revealing attire to express religious, spiritual, or personal interests. Modest attire can be elegant and contemporary while being non-revealing. For example, Muslim women frequently(...)

Traditional Arab Folktales

Mar 20, 2024

Photo: Wikimedia Commons By: Ziyan Qutub / Arab America Contributing Writer At the core of Arab culture is a reservoir of intriguing stories that have been told from one generation to another—these are the traditional folktales of the Arabs. They are(...)

Significance of Schumer’s Denouncement of Netanyahu and Call for New Israeli Elections

Mar 20, 2024

Senator Charles Schumer's Visit to Israel in 2023 By: Ghassan Rubeiz / Arab America Contributing Writer The full impact of the brave speech of Charles Schumer is hard to judge. When Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, Israelis were on(...)

Mansaf: The Pride of Jordanian Cuisine

Mar 19, 2024

By: Habeeb Salloum/Arab America Contributing Writer The first time I sat down to a feast featuring mansaf was in the countryside near Amman, the capital of Jordan. Surrounded by distinguished-looking men in flowing Arab robes, I reclined quietly beside my(...)

Abu Dhabi Makes Waves With Its First Major Art Biennale

Mar 19, 2024

Image credit: Google Images By: Masha Lukovenko / Arab America Contributing Writer Public Art Abu Dhabi unveiled its first installation, a multimedia piece called WAVE by the Seoul-based collective district. Abu Dhabi is the latest city aiming to put itself(...)